The Federal Court of Appeal granted Friday Trump administration The motion to extend the stay will allow the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to continue operations at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Last week, a federal judge in Maryland ruled to end U.S. Agency for International Development’s functions Probably unconstitutionalorder to restore the original state.
The Federal Court of Appeals is Richmond, Virginiaa suspension was issued on Tuesday, temporarily blocking the judge’s order that prohibits Doge from working with USAID. It also bans the Biopharma Chief Executive Jeremy Levin from leading the agency.
Friday’s decision extended the stay until the appeal was resolved.
On March 11, 2025, protesters outside the Department of Education in Washington, DC. (Peter Pinido/Fox News figures)
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A group of 26 unidentified existing and former USDA employees or contractors accused the Trump administration of illegally canceling government contracts, putting them on administrative leave, reducing force for employees and contractors, closing headquarters and closing websites, violating the appointment clause of the U.S. Constitution because Elon Musk Act as Doge Administrator without proper appointment.
They also claim to demolish the USDA’s infringement Congress’s Responsibilityaccording to court documents.
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Trump administration fights these claims, accusing Musk of being a senior adviser to the president and taking action at U.S. Agency for International Development Secretary of State Marco Rubio As an agent administrator for USAID, he later appointed Peter Marocco as deputy administrator.
Subsequently, the United States Agency for International Development and the President Donald Trump’s According to court documents, the executive order established an internal departmental threshold team led by Lewin.
American flag and American flag flying outside the US Agency for International Development building in Washington DC (Reuters/Annabelle Gordon)
The government believes that so-called employees and contractors’ actions against the Constitution are within the scope of the agency’s discretion and the President’s authority to guide foreign policy.
The District Court approved a preliminary injunction requested by employees and contractors, preventing business at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and found that the government “probably” violated the Constitution and that the suspension was in the public interest.
Later, it clarified that Lewin, who led the USAID Doge team before the ban, could no longer do the work of the USAID COO, but instead refused to grant any modifications.
Former U.S.A.D.C. employee leaves headquarters building (Leigh Green of Fox News Digital)
The Trump administration appealed the District Court’s preliminary injunction and motion to refusal to clarify or amend. It also filed an emergency motion to maintain the injunction until appeal.
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Court of Appeals Circuit Judges Arthur Marvin Quattlebaum Jr. and Paul V. Niemeyer found Friday that Musk and Doge “make a strong statement that they are likely to succeed under the merits of the appeal and that they will be irreparably injured because they will have to suffer adverse injuries from the will.”
Additionally, Quatterbaum and Niemeyer found accommodation “in the public interest.”
The ruling marks the third interim victory for the Trump administration at the federal appeals court level on Friday.
